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Author Tian, Xiaofei.

Title Reading du Fu : Nine Views.

Publication Info. HK : Hong Kong University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Home, Locale, Empire -- 1. Foundings of Home -- 2. Thinking through Poetry -- 3. History Channels -- 4. Ironic Empires -- Section II: Poetry and Buddhism -- 5. Refuges and Refugees -- 6. Feeding the Phoenix -- Section III: Reception and Re-creation -- 7. Sources of Difficulty -- 8. Ming-Qing Paintings Inscribed with Du Fu's Poetic Lines -- 9. Six Modernist Poets in Search of Du Fu -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index
Summary This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu's poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; m.
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Subject Du, Fu, 712-770 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Du, Fu, 712-770.
Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, Chinese -- Tang dynasty, 618-907.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.
Poets, Chinese.
Tang Dynasty (China)
Chronological Term 618-907
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Tian, Xiaofei Reading du Fu : Nine Views HK : Hong Kong University Press,c2020 9789888528448
ISBN 9789882209916
9882209912
9888528440
9789888528448